The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/09 at 18:00 EST

Episode Date: February 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/09 at 18:00 EST

When a body is discovered 10 miles out to sea, it sparks a mind-blowing police investigation. There's a man living in this address in the name of a deceased. He's one of the most wanted men in the world. This isn't really happening. Officers are finding large sums of money. It's a tale of murder, skullduggery and international intrigue. So who really is he? I'm Sam Mullins and this is Sea of Lies from CBC's Uncovered, available now.

From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. U.S. President Donald Trump says he's serious about Canada becoming the 51st state. He reiterated his stance in an interview with Brett Baier on Fox News. You know, the Prime Minister said this weekend to a group of Canadian businessmen, he was at a private meeting, he said that your wish for Canada to be the 51st state is a quote, real thing.

Is it a real thing? Yeah, it is. I think Canada would be much better off being a 51st state because we lose $200 billion a year with Canada and I'm not going to let that happen. If they're a 51st state, I don't mind doing it. According to the US government, Canada had a $53 billion trade surplus with the United

States in 2022. Trump also said Canada and Mexico have not done enough to avoid tariffs next month. And since that interview, Trump spoke to reporters on reporters that is on Air Force One saying he'll announce 25 percent tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the US on Monday. He says the tariffs would apply to Canada and Mexico and... Announcing probably Tuesday or Wednesday at a news conference reciprocal tariffs and very and very simply, if they charge us, we charge them. In other words, the U.S. would impose import duties on products in cases where another

country have levied duties on U.S. goods. An advocacy group in Quebec is calling for an end to the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement. Solidarity Without Borders says the United States can no longer be considered a safe place for migrants under President Trump. Ottawa says the agreement helps to manage the refugee system. Adelle Garnier is a professor at Université Laval. She says it's unlikely that Canada will scrap the deal because without it, there could be an increase in refugee claims. Removing this probably is a cause of uncertainty of what would happen if there was an increase

of asylum claims in Canada at a time where the political discourse, public opinion has shifted away from the numbers of immigrants we have in Canada. The Safe Third Country Agreement requires migrants to make an asylum claim in the first country they enter. Two Palestinian women, one who was eight months pregnant, were killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry says the pregnant woman's unborn child did not survive and her husband was critically wounded.

The Israeli military says it's investigating the incident. The IDF is expanding a counter-terrorism operation in the north of the West Bank. In Madrid, Spain... There are children on the streets and nobody cares! Bank. In Madrid, Spain, thousands of protesters demanded the right to dignified housing. They're calling on the government to address rising rental prices and housing shortages and introduce policies that would provide affordable housing for all. Spain's average housing price reached a historic high at the end of 2024. The Super Bowl is about to get underway and the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia

Eagles won't be the only ones squaring off this evening. It's also liberals versus the progressive conservatives. Both Ontario parties have taken out ads during the big game. Loretta Neredikop reports. When there's a break in the on-field action during the Super Bowl, bring on the political match-up. Leadership is about priorities. And for seven years, Doug Ford has had the wrong ones. That's what fans will hear from Bonnie Cromby and the Liberals, with a much different message from Doug Ford's PCs. We need a fighter. Someone who protects us.

The PCs saying their two ads will both be positive. Millions of Ontarians watch the Super Bowl and the ads are expensive. David Soberman is a marketing professor at the U of T. It would probably be at least five or six times the cost of running an ad on regular television. The NDP also has a new ad running on TV but not during the Super Bowl. Life in Ontario is harder than it should be unless you're going to duck for its friends. Ford's attacks are for someone not on the ballot. As long as Donald Trump is president, the risk of tariffs will never go away.

Once again, not mentioning his actual competition this election. Larenda Reddacop, CBC News, Niagara-on-the-Lake. petition this election. Lorenda Reddick-Hop, CBC News, Niagara-on-the-Lake. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.